Soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games

Soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Tennis Field
Dates	11–15 December 1998
Competitors	86 from 11 nations

Soft tennis was a discipline of the tennis competitions at the 1998 Asian Games. Competition took place from December 11 to December 15. All events were held at the Tennis Field 3 in Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

There were four doubles and team events at the competition.

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds

¼

Quarterfinals

½

Semifinals

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	11th Fri	12th Sat		13th Sun		14th Mon	15th Tue
Men's doubles						P	¼	½	F
Men's team	P	P		½	F
Women's doubles						P	¼	½	F
Women's team	P	P	½	F

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's doubles	Chinese Taipei Kuo Hsu-tung Fang Tung-hsien	Chinese Taipei Liao Nan-kai Yeh I-ming	South Korea Jun In-soo You Young-dong
Men's team	South Korea Choi Ji-hun Jun In-soo Kim Hee-soo Kim Kyung-han You Young-dong	Chinese Taipei Fang Tung-hsien Kuo Hsu-tung Liao Nan-kai Sie Shun-feng Yeh I-ming	Japan Takahisa Hirayama Hideyuki Kitamoto Shigeo Nakahori Hironobu Saito Tsuneo Takagawa
Women's doubles	South Korea Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-kyung	Chinese Taipei Lin Li-jung Cheng Shu-chen	Japan Naoko Higashi Yuko Miyaji
Women's team	South Korea Kang Ji-sook Lee Mi-hwa Lee Mi-kyung Yang Kum-yo Yoon Sun-kyung	Japan Naoko Higashi Satoko Ishikawa Yuko Miyaji Shino Mizukami Tomoka Oku	Chinese Taipei Chang Shu-chuan Cheng Shu-chen Hsu I-chia Lin Li-jung Lin Mei-ling

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	3	0	1	4
2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	3	1	5
3	Japan (JPN)	0	1	2	3
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

Participating nations

A total of 86 athletes from 11 nations competed in soft tennis at the 1998 Asian Games:

•  China (10)
•  Chinese Taipei (10)
•  Japan (10)
•  Kazakhstan (4)
•  Maldives (5)
•  Mongolia (8)
•  Nepal (5)
•  Philippines (10)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Thailand (10)
•  Vietnam (4)

References

• Results
• Results

External links

• Olympic Council of Asia